The Jacobs Faculty Bookshelf
This page serves as a listing of publications by Jacobs School of Music faculty. Click on an item to view available purchasing options as well as its availability on the IU Library Catalog.
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Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band’s Kogun
Noriko Manabe , E. Taylor Atkins (author)
In 1974, a Japanese soldier emerged from the Philippine jungle, where he had hidden for three decades, unconvinced that World War II had ended. Later that year, the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band released its first album, Kogun (“solitary soldier”), the title track of which adopted music from medieval Japanese Noh theater for the first time in a jazz context, serving as aural commemoration of the soldier's experience. At a time when big band jazz was mostly a vehicle for nostalgia, and no longer regarded as a vital art, the album was heralded as a revelation. Kogun elevated Akiyoshi's reputation as a brilliant composer/arranger and earned Tabackin acclaim as a compelling, versatile improviser on tenor saxophone and flute.
What values should form the foundation of music education? And once we decide on those values, how do we ensure we are acting on them?
Grigory Kalinovsky , Hans Jørgen Jensen
ViolinMind is a pedagogical method book that has been written to help musicians understand HOW intonation works and, more importantly, WHY it works the way it does. It is an adaptation of the acclaimed book CelloMind.
Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson describes how graphical images can help us understand music, offers a guide to understanding what makes musical images effective or ineffective, and provides readers with extensive principles and strategies to create excellent images of their own. Together with an extensive online supplement, the book includes nearly 500 diagrams from both historical and modern sources, including examples and theories from Western art music, world music, and jazz, folk, and popular music.
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Complete Sonatas and Sonatina for Violin & Piano
Grigory Kalinovsky , Tatiana Goncharova
Mieczyslaw Weinberg is now recognized as one of the outstanding Russian composers of the second half of the twentieth century. Fêted for his symphonies and string quartets, he also wrote a sequence of Violin Sonatas crucial to the development of his distinctive and elusive musical idiom. Shostakovich's influence is evident in the Third Violin Sonata, as are Jewish melodic elements, while the Fourth Violin Sonata is alternately sombre and hectic. His masterpiece is the Fifth Violin Sonata, symphonic in scale but subtle in form, and containing some of his most affecting writing.
What is Ours - Music for an America in Progress
Dominick DiOrio , Roger Roe , D. James Tagg
There are generally two ways one can face a crisis. One can give up, or one can persevere and use it to one’s advantage. Choir director Dominick DiOrio definitely chose the latter during the pandemic, turning his reflections and sentiments about it into a profoundly engaging, almost philosophical choral album titled WHAT IS OURS. DiOrio conjures a formidable cross-section of music by a range of contemporary composers that not only reflects the diversity and multiplicity of modern-day America, but also its underbelly of struggle, challenge, and an eventual triumph of humanity.
Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon
Joseph Gramley , Yo-Yo Ma, Silkroad Ensemble
This is the second recording by Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. The musicians are from Mongolia, Turkey, Japan, India, China, Korea, Azerbaijan, Canada, Uzbekistan, and the U.S. Rather than driving them apart, the musicians' differences made them curious to learn more about each other.